Apple MacBook Air's M2 silicon is now available on Geekbench

 The deluge of Mac 14,2 scores on Geekbench suggests that reviewers with early access to the new Apple MacBook Air are busily analyzing the performance of its new M2 CPU.

Surprisingly, the M2 in the fanless MacBook Air performs similarly to the M2 in the MacBook Pro 13, which has a single fan. Geekbench is a short benchmark that does not stress the chipset or generate enough heat to cause throttling.

    However, early M2 reviews revealed that the new processor runs hotter than the M1, which can result in lower sustained performance.Those experiments are based on the single-fan MacBook Pro 13, and they will     very certainly provide the same results on the fanless MacBook Air.

However, we anticipate that the MacBook Pro 14 and 16 laptops will be well equipped to deal with the new silicon when it becomes available in Pro, Max, and Ultra configurations.

The MacBook Air launched on sale for pre-order on July 8 and will begin shipping on July 15, just a few weeks after the old-style, M2-equipped MacBook Pro 13. The Air is smaller, sports a new 13.6-inch 2560x1664px IPS LCD with 500 nits of brightness, MagSafe and two USB-C connections, and a new 1080p webcam, in addition to the improved processor (which has an 18% faster CPU and a 35% faster GPU).